Source: Iron Grip: The Opression

The real-time strategy/first persion shooter hybird Iron Grip has completed a few more in-game models, all rigged up! Currently there are only a few tasks to be completed before a beta release, including an advanced AI system which allows the enemy AI to essentialy learn your tactics, and adapt.

The first bit of media is the Rahmos Barracks, in which you will train your soldiers with:


Secondly, the Rahmos War Factory, which your vehicles will roll off of the production line at:


Actual in-game screen shots are soon to follow, so you best keep within the Iron Grip!

Source: Dreamscape

Well, it's quite obvious that the Dreamscape crew have been very hard at work lately, providing us with a rather large media update. Here's just a small taste of what they have to offer:


Be sure to check out the full story at their site!

Source: Day Hard

The Day Hard single player modification has uploaded a trailer, which you can download here. A short news post, but most definatly a sweet one!

Other activities have kept me from my inbox over the last few days, and I apologize. However, news is still news! The following updates have been e-mailed to me:

Mech Mod - MechMod is far from dead; in fact, they've posted some nifty new media! Head to their site to check it out :)

HEAT - The HEAT mod team has been hard at work to bring us a media update, check their site for details!

Flanders Mod - Some confusion has surrounded the new name of the modification, so if you're one of those confused persons, an explanation can be viewed on the site.

D.I.P.R.I.P. - the DIPRIP team has made many things public, and a really eye pleasing web site on a new server has been completed. Check out this up and coming HL2 modification, you won't be dissapointed!

D.E.A.D. - The DEAD team have some new media posted on their web site, and are currently looking for a helping hand as well. Head over to their site now :)

Source: Steam

Over the last few days, there have been many updates involving Steam. Here's the jist of what they have to offer us in the latter part of October:

Updates to the Steam Client have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Steam Client

* Fixed Purchase Wizard getting corrupt text when the back button was pressed
* Added ability for 3rd party Source Mods to have an icon in the games list, via an "icon" entry in their GameInfo.txt file. The icon filename is relative to games install directory and should be an uncompressed TGA 16x16 pixels in size
* Fixed small memory leak in core engine

Black Widow Games, a long time Half-Life MOD team, just annouced "They Hunger: Lost Souls" a Source-based follow up to their "They Hunger" series of games. Head on over to their site to get a look at what they've done so far.

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One of the year's most anticipated action games is set for November 15 launch

Bellevue, WA. - October 25, 2005 - Valve, a leading entertainment software company, announced today that Half-Life® 2 for Xbox has gone gold and will ship to retail outlets around the world on November 15, 2005. Half-Life 2 has been called "the Xbox prospect of the year" by IGN.com and is one of the most highly anticipated video game releases of the year.

The follow up to one of the most critically acclaimed and best selling action games of all time, Half-Life 2 takes the suspense, challenge and visceral charge of the original, and adds startling new realism and responsiveness. Half-Life 2 opens the door to a world where the player's presence affects everything around him, from the physical environment to the behaviors - even the emotions - of both friends and enemies.

The intense, real-time gameplay of Half-Life 2 is made possible with Source™, Valve's proprietary engine technology. Valve Source provides major enhancements in:

* Digital Actors: Experience the most sophisticated in-game characters ever witnessed.
* Advanced AI: Friends and foes assess threats and fashion weapons from what is at hand.
* Stunning Graphics: Incredibly realistic environments and special effects.
* Physical Gameplay: Objects obey the laws of gravity, friction, and buoyancy.

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Updates to Rag Doll Kung Fu have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Rag Doll Kung Fu

* online server list has many improvements, including search for friends, and various filters
* camera bug fixed (when you die, you can click to zoom to other players for differnt veiws)
* added a chat log
* mouse sensitivity now gets saved
* missing text bug fix
* open UDP ports problem fixed

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Updates to the Steam Client have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Steam Client

* Added ability for 3rd party Half-Life 1 Mods to have an icon in the games list, via an "icon" entry in their liblist.gam file. The icon filename is relative to games install directory and should be an uncompressed TGA 16x16 pixels in size.


Update - We have released an update to fix the %account% issue.

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Half-Life 2: Lost Coast is now available for play for all Half-Life 2 owners.

Half-Life 2: Lost Coast, a single-player level custom-created to showcase High-Dynamic Range lighting (HDR) in the Source engine, is available now to all owners of HL2. As a technology showcase, Half-Life 2: Lost Coast's system requirements are very high. During installation, Steam will prompt you if your system does not meet the recommended configuration. We hope you enjoy it.

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Valve and Unalis have entered an agreement that grants Unalis the retail distribution rights to a number of Valve's games in Taiwan, including Half-Life® 2: Game of the Year, Counter-Strike™: Source™, as well as the Half-Life® 1 and Counter-Strike™ 1 Anthologies. For more information on Unalis, please visit their website.

Source: Badge of Blood

Well, it's about time for another media update, including mostly concept art that gives a little more insight into the weaponry and vehicles that will be included in the Badge of Blood universe.

We'll start the show with a few of the primary weapons of the European GPA Forces.

First, we have the Koester Forge ML-114 Light Machine Gun:

Next, we have the re-envisioned Koester Forge FA-112, the assault rifle that was derived from the popular ML-114 LMG:

We also have the Polish designed Dwowice Machine Tools Co. Wz78, a popular submachine gun and personal defense weapon for GPA officers and vehicle crews:

Now, we also want to make sure our MDF in-waiting out there get some love too, so we wanted to show you a couple of the weapons and a vehicle that we have in the making!

Here, we have the Aberson & Bosche AB65HE RaDDICS Weapon:

Next we have Gyrovin Machine Sodality's GM995, a powerful anti-material gauss rifle that uses electromagnetic energy to propel its round in lieu traditional chemical propellant:

And now we present the Autotek IFV28 "Lancer" infantry fighting vehicle, including a sheet of additional turret modules!

As you can imagine, the combinations will allow for a wide variety of player options!

Ok, that wraps up this media update... We still have a lot of content sitting around waiting to see the light of day, but we want to make to sure that everything looks spectacular before we put out for public consumption. Our first alpha is well on its way, and hopefully within the next month, we'll have in-game screenshots to show off that will include some of our menu styles, HUD items, models, and custom maps! Very exciting stuff!

Source: Dire

Well everyone I thought it would never come. We have actually launched the site. Now, keep in mind we launched it kind of early. There are still some tweaks we need to do to it but I wanted to get it out there for the world to see!

Anyhow, enjoy the forums, check out our IRC with the chat option, and just enjoy it. We will have more content up later so keep checking back this week.

Source: The Somme Valley

As I'm sure some of you know, I'm the leader of the World War One modification called The Somme Valley, which tonight, takes on the name Flanders Fields, and the new URL of www.flandersmod.com. My team has underwent an extensive restructuring to make it not only more efficiant, but of much higher quality too.

Apart from the above changes, it's time for media! Terminal Reality's "X-Convict" has done a personal favor for me and modeled and skinned two Sturmpanzerwagen A7V tanks, the first German tank in history:


As you can see, it's nothing but the highest quality for Flanders Fields! So be sure to update your bookmarks, and your IRC perform lists to #flandersfields (on irc.gamesurge.net), and I hope to see some new faces around :)

Source: Fortress Forever

Fortress Forever, a very much anticipated Half-Life 2 Modification (speaking on my own part, as an avid TFC fan), has released its first skinned character modelers, the snipers!


Also, two new additions to the FF team (MrBeefy [texture artist] and soulescape [sound engineer]) will most definatly speed along production, so keep your eye on this one ;)

Source: Hostile Map Database

It's been a while since we've seen an update from HMD, but they now have a working version of hi_farmhouse. The development of the map was halted upon the 1.4 release of Holstile Intent due to the sheer amount of models and entities which pushed it over the limits of the engine. Work re-progressed on the map, and the entity list was taken from nearly 400 to 270, a much more acceptable range.


You can head here to download the map.